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Rigid fuel lines in my 650
I'm considering running rigid aluminum fuel lines from the tanks to meet flex lines at the fuselage. Anyone out there have experience doing this? Any pitfalls I should watch out for?
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Permalink Reply by Daniel Niendorff on
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Good summary on rigid lines here by John Croke.
https://youtu.be/LtBNa3OYsqE
I did mine with with 5052-O which worked well, but is a little tough to get bent correctly. Would probably use 3003-O versatube if I did it again.
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Permalink Reply by Dan Dempsey on
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I did rigid all the way from tanks to the pumps on the firewall. I don't think it was hard. I used a tubing bender to control all the bends. One tip I'd make is that at the wing fuselage junction put a loop in the tubing. The loop can be adjusted to connect to a bulkhead fitting.
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